Raja Shehadeh

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Raja Shehadeh is a writer, lawyer, and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq.
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

ISBN 9781635423648 Other Press

A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. More about this book >

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Raja Shehadeh

Raja Shehadeh is a writer, lawyer, and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books including Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied PalestineOccupation Diaries, and Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape, which won the Orwell Prize.

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